Quests of the Year - Most Popular Quests on Wowhead for 2018

As 2018 draws to a close, many sites and communities create traditional “Game of the Year” lists, ranking games across a variety of serious and silly metrics. While we can’t quite do that here at Wowhead, as we focus on World of Warcraft, we’ve decided to dive into the multitude of pageviews from 2018 and highlight what was the most popular in our community!

Today we are highlighting the most popular quests of 2018 on Wowhead. With the expansion mid-year, we’ve created several lists: all of 2018 (which ended up the same as Legion 2018) and Battle for Azeroth.

While you're here, make sure to check out our Quest Completion Tracker, which made its debut in Battle for Azeroth. We've long had various ways to track quests on Wowhead, including the Profiler and Completion Progress in filters, but with this new tool and UI we are happy to present a centralized resource dedicated to tracking Loremaster progress. In addition to seeing how many remaining quests you have in a zone, this tool emphasizes how many important story chapters remain for quest achievements.

5. La marque du Sentinax - This quest was required for Conquête de la tombe. It was challenging due to bugs (the Sentinax on the map appeared in the wrong place), limited-time spawns, and generally needing a group to complete.

Commentaire de Debrashavi

Commentaire de Debrashavi

Even on the eve of New Year some people can't leave the negativity behind and be happy. What's your favorite quest?

Well Funkyjam, I would have to say that my favorite quests are the ones that are elegant and rich with pop culture references.Haris Pilton and her Portable Hole is one.

"Welcome to the Machine" is iconic and Winter Veil is always enjoyable because there's the classic opening of presents and usually a new toy. The Wow Anniversaries are good because they hearken back to good times.

I liked the plague intro to the Lich King and I understand why it was upsetting to so many. Nessingwary is a classic and the Day that Deathwing Came. Lili and Nomi from MOP have become like long lost cousins, well Nomi, might be that weird Uncle at the holiday get togethers.

I will never forget running up to the attic of the inn at Tarren Mill only to be slaughtered by the Alliance from South Shore.

Kara will always be my favorite and oh, how I wish I had been here for Ahn'Qiraj. I just missed it and a Game Master whispered to me "Get Thee to Outlands." That was when GM's would respond in real time. I was so shy when that happened.

There were a lot of tough quests in Vanilla. I used to go to bed so frustrated with one and wake up do some research on Alakazan or Throtbot and see a good strategy.

And that flippin' gnome bot that flagged me for the first time out side of Crossroads. It was akin to losing one's virginity and I was terrified to go into the Nightsong area. It took me months to leave Camp Taco and venture forth in my broken armor. Good times.

Commentaire de kodora1316

on 2018-12-26T19:32:54-06:00

I'd like to know how many people got the Mage Towers eventually.

I got the two I wanted: tank DH and feral druid. Sparkly kitty was a must!

I tried resto druid several times but the last part was too much. I wasn't going to make myself hate the game just for something I didn't *super* want, so I stopped at the 2.

Commentaire de kutana

on 2018-12-26T19:55:04-06:00

I'd like to know how many people got the Mage Towers eventually.

I got 4 different ones :) (one twice, since my mom wanted it too) Got outlaw, assassination, feral, and affliction (only ones I really wanted to put the time in to getting, since gearing up that far on 11 characters is a lot, especially when you take in to account different specs needing different stats)

Stats weren’t an issue once you got to 930+ ilvl, easily obtainable through Antorus LFR. Some legendaries made it easier, but they weren’t required by any means. It was mostly about figuring out how each spec handles the fight mechanics and then practice. My first tank one was Guardian Druid, which took me 90 attempts at 905 ilvl (without Bandelettes de loofa too), and my last was Prot warrior which took less than 10 attempts at 935. All said, I managed to complete 27 of the 35 specs. The only ones I failed to get were the specs I couldn’t figure out in time (holy priest, affliction warlock) and the ones I couldn’t be bothered with because I didn’t like their appearances (resto druid, all 3 shaman and 2 warlock specs) enough to spend time gearing and learning.

Commentaire de avatarofshadow

on 2018-12-26T20:12:16-06:00

POPULAR isn't the same as "Quests you were forced to do to progress."

It's like saying that paying your taxes is the most popular way to spend money in 2018, because everyone does it. Well, almost everyone.

Commentaire de TheLustful

on 2018-12-26T20:20:27-06:00

Shocking, the most completed quests were the ones necessary to unlock content.

Commentaire de Stormwander

on 2018-12-26T23:21:18-06:00

I'd like to know how many people got the Mage Towers eventually.

I got the feral druid, guardian druid, elemental shaman, frost mage and unholy DK. The frost mage took me the longest with about 80 tries and the DK the least with... 3. Seriously, it was ridiculously easy. I do wish I had tried prot pally or warrior, the flail is an epic weapon. And I was tempted to do the feral one for my husband but I finished the frost mage just a few hours before the challenges were gone for good, so I decided to go to sleep instead.

Commentaire de Cozzene

on 2018-12-26T23:25:51-06:00

I mostly see quests that we all sighed and rolled our eyes at and dragged ourselves through because they were just a necessary hoop to jump through *shrug*

FUN quests, MOST ENJOYED quests, the list would be drastically different.

Commentaire de Serraine

on 2018-12-26T23:55:15-06:00

So, a most popular 'quests you need for flying, class mounts and artifact skin' list.

Commentaire de DraethDarkstar

on 2018-12-27T01:34:17-06:00

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Balance of Power wins most hated by virtue of being the most 'should've been account wide' quest in the history of WoW that wasn't.

Commentaire de Resverie

on 2018-12-27T02:01:56-06:00

I'd like to know how many people got the Mage Towers eventually.

34/36 for me. Fun for the content drought at the end of Legion for sure! :)

Happy New Year people!

Commentaire de Deihjan

on 2018-12-27T03:16:16-06:00

Popular =/= most researched.

This is a list of the most researched, because they were bad..

Commentaire de Felplagued

on 2018-12-27T04:04:52-06:00

Most Top 10 BfA Quests are cause bugs or confusion... good job blizzard.

yes... the most searched quests on wowhead would of course be ones that are bugged/not obvious...i dont see the suprise, you will see more "How do i do this bugged quest?" then "How do i do this quest to kill 10 boars"

Commentaire de Kurnak

on 2018-12-27T04:20:03-06:00

I'd like to know how many people got the Mage Towers eventually.

I tried Fury Warrior and Prot Paladin to no avail, but made Unholy DK, which was extremely easy if you focused on adds and let the AoE damage the boss. Before I could notice the boss was dead.

Commentaire de Waterbuffel

on 2018-12-27T06:32:06-06:00

Most Top 10 BfA Quests are cause bugs or confusion... good job blizzard.

It actually makes perfect sense. People don't look up a random quest or anything like that. People usually look up a quest whenever they're stuck or confused. This happens most of the times whenever a quest is bugged or is confusing, meaning thousands of people are stuck on it and end up looking it up about what to do.I personally just think the title is wrong: It's not really about popularity, but more about the quests people got stuck on the most (for whatever reason). The amount of hits it got as a result is the reason it counts as 'popular'. Offcourse there are a few that actually DO fall in the category of being popular.

Commentaire de Aralnda

on 2018-12-27T09:17:02-06:00

Would love to see top toys, achievements,and battle pets. Maybe even hunter pets?

Commentaire de offspinner

on 2018-12-27T10:03:09-06:00

I'd like to know how many people got the Mage Towers eventually.

I'm a terribad clicker, but I got 4 done - fire, elemental, affliction and destruct. I really wanted the frost mage appearance, and put in around 100 attempts, but it was too hard for me. (Not that I've used the appearances since BfA dropped, but anyway...).

Commentaire de Nihilatos

on 2018-12-27T11:59:38-06:00

Are you sure these aren't popular quests or quests that infuriated players who couldn't work out how to do them so came to wowhead for the solution. Because when it came to Legion I had to use it to figure out what I was doing more times than any expansion before.

Commentaire de Dragonjts

on 2018-12-27T12:26:07-06:00

Popular =/= most researched.

This is a list of the most researched, because they were bad..

Most popular "on wowhead" does = most researched though.

Commentaire de Magnognomus

on 2018-12-27T15:17:44-06:00

The only reason I check a quest on wowhead when I can't figure it out myself, means: poor description, missing information and such.

I guess many of us remember the story of the "The Day that Deathwing came". I love that story and still one of my favorite, or the other one when the pigmys put us in cage and have a conversation about "how much coconout we can get for the ugly one?". Well those are great moment and never had to check on them on wowhead because it was well written and scripted.

In BFA, I loved Drustvar zone with all the quests, everything was great and superb. On the other hand Stormsong Valley is so bad I just left wowhead open on the other monitor as I had to constantly check back on things. Clearly visible as different team desinged that 2 zones, the 1st Drustvar is the top quality today thingy: great, well writen story, etc. but Stormsong is oldschool: missing infos from dozen quest, cofusing locations etc. It was half baked compared to Drustvar, and the pirate story? Well it was meh. It could be great, exciting but ended up hollow and shallow. I still like the story of BFA, and will start on Horde side in month or 2 once I finish to collect the 5million for the mount. So the most visited quest <> best or greatest, it is actualy the most confusing ones..... imao.